Bill Gates Quotes About Life, Business and Love

Bill Gates Quotes

Bill Gates quotes! Each quote has a net worth 20.2 million so read each one with care! LOL! Enjoy!

William Henry “Bill” Gates, III is a business magnate, mega philanthropist, serial investor, and computer program developer. Bill Gates is known for being the Chief Executive and Chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest and most popular personal-computer software company. Bill Gates leads the world in both net worth and charitable donations.

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3.) Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. – Bill Gates

4.) Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. – Bill Gates

Bill Gates Quotes

5.) We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction. – Bill Gates

6.) If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good. – Bill Gates

7.) Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off, and very few employers are interested in helping you. Find yourself. – Bill Gates

8.) Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room. – Bill Gates

9.) I’m a big believer that as much as possible, and there’s obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing. – Bill Gates

Bill Gates Quotes

10.) Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10% to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated – Bill Gates

11.) I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act. – Bill Gates

12.) Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. – Bill Gates

14.) We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve. – Bill Gates

15.) I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in. – Bill Gates

16.) As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. – Bill Gates

17.) If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG. – Bill Gates

18.) I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts. – Bill Gates

40.) In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that. – Bill Gates

41.) Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires. – Bill Gates

Bill Gates Quotes

42.) We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering. – Bill Gates

43.) Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy. – Bill Gates

44.) The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

46.) Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself. – Bill Gates

47.) The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system. – Bill Gates

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